Dressing rooms are an important part of the house. This article provides information on the types and styles that can be applied to a dressing room.

What is a Dressing room?

It is a room dedicated for the sole purpose of dressing up or having a makeover. The designs used in these rooms are extremely beautiful owing to the decorations. They are present in some houses or villas or hotels as part of the customary purposes.

What types of Dressing rooms exist?

They are classified into two types based on size and requirements..

1. Open Dressing room

Open dressing rooms do not contain any doors or partitions that separate the storage space. They continue inside the room without any closing. The wardrobes do not have any doors or there aren’t any wardrobe at all. The dresses are hung in a series of hangers and are distributed all over the room. These dressing rooms also have mirrors along every wall. The view looks more spacious and can be used in any apartment. But to maintain an aesthetic look, everything needs to be kept in order and arranged well.

2. Closed Dressing room

These are located in a specific room and is not open to all. This is a private dressing room. They are fenced off from each other by doors or curtains. The entire space of the room is not messed up as the dresses are present within the cabins and not hung up everywhere. Restoring them back to their place isn’t necessary as it is closed behind doors. This provides opportunity to provide space for dresses for all members of the family doesn’t matter how big or small the dressing room is. Lot of free spaces exist where other furnitures can be added too.

What are the kinds of styles to apply?

The purpose and space are the two most considered parameters for styling the Dressing room.

The asian designs have wood all over the room. The hangers, the doors, the windows all are made of wood or bamboo in the japanese way. The doors are sliding ones. The surface of the floor will be polished to avoid damage to the wooden floor. They also have mirrors separately and not embedded to the walls.

Classic styles provide very compact look for the rooms. They are of the closed type with many racks and storage spaces to keep the dresses. They also contain tables and table mirror to groom. They also have cushioned seats for us to relax. The colors chosen for the furnishing are the neutral colors and are not vibrant.

This style have very formal and business oriented styling. The theme is either totally in grey or a combination of grey and white. The surfaces of the furnishing are well polished and refined giving it an industrial look. In addition to that the amount of furnitures are less making it less messy and more grand to look at.

It is the combination of old style and new styles. They have wooden and plastic furnishing with colors ranging from neutral to vibrant depending upon the location and type of building. When there is a lot of space, many additional items are added like wall pictures and designs.

Where can i find a perfect Dressing room?

Homify is the place to find a perfect Dressing room. It offers lot of options to choose from and also gives information on each one of them making it easier for you to choose from it

Steps to design them

There are 6 basic steps to design the Dressing room. Any project takes about 2 months to complete on an average.

1. Choose the style

There are a lot of styles present at homify to choose from. A dressing room can only designed based on the style required.

2. Decide how much space is required

This decides everything that follows for designing this room. Open types require more space while closed types require less. If the wardrobe needs to be more, the space should be more and hence the area has to be planned out for it. The architect can help you scale up the area for designing a dressing room. This would actually take just a week for scaling it out.

3. Electrical and plumbing

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Rough-in means the work done behind the walls and under the floor. Hence before painting or furnishing the room, electrical and plumbing rough-ins are done wherever necessary as per the design plan. Special lighting has to be there in the areas where the wardrobe closet is and also near the mirror, as that forms the prime purpose in designing a dressing room. The electricians and plumbers will take about 2-3 weeks to work out the area. They will charge about 20% of the budget.

4. Laminations and coatings

The next step is to laminate or coat the tables and other furnitures. All the necessary designs and colors are used to coat. Special coatings are also made so as to withstand any damage done to the walls and also stop removal of the paint due to environmental factors.

5. Furnishings

Once all the painting is done, the required furnitures are added to the room. Tables, chairs, lightings, wall hangings, fire place and every required furniture is brought in. This entirely depends on the type of room. According the spacing and type, the amount and type of furnitures added are decided upon.

6. Finishings

Once the above is done and all the requirements are met, the installation of this room ends with special finishings to all items in the room, like mirrors and chairs.

Conclusion

Thus we know come to know the various types and styles involved in creating Dressing rooms and the steps involved in doing so. In the end, it all comes down to space and money when choosing the type and style.

A room that increases the value of a house. The more the number of bedrooms the more valuable the house is. There will be no house without a bedroom, a place to sleep in. It is an important part of the residential design.

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